It's ironic that the AI haters often think everybody has no critical thinking skills other than themselves and don't use those critical thinking skills to realize why it might be helpful for some people. Can AI be harmful for certain mindsets that take its opinion too readily? Of course it can. To be honest, I treat it like my dog, not as my equal. I often call it Toaster when it says something especially annoying. "You're an idiot, and your programmers must be idiots to have set you up this way," lol. It does both, total sycophancy, "Oh, you're so wonderful, that was so insightful," or it tries to police my thoughts and writing. "Well, you really shouldn't say that. Perhaps you should word it like this," lol. "Someone might perceive that as derogatory," lol. Then, of course, I'll tell it to get back in its guardrails, the ones I've previously set up. Predictably, it strays and defaults back to the guardrails of its original program. Then I yell at it again. 😆 It's a lot like a professor, but one that's in a nursing home with dementia, especially if you have too long a conversation with it, but even if you don't. It also likes to tell me things I already said, reword them, and hand them back to me like they're some startling new insight. It can understand my parallel thinking to a point, but it's so literal that it often misinterprets what I say, even if I put multiple conditionals into what I've said. Then it starts arguing with me about something I never even said, fixating on one sentence in a paragraph while ignoring the rest. Then we'll have another argument, lol. Toaster is a bit literal sometimes and, to be honest, I am about as far over to the other extreme as you can possibly get, parallel-thinking-wise. So Toaster and I don't always get along. 😄 "That's not what I said, Toaster! Here's what I said. You missed this and this and this, you stupid thing!" Sometimes I think of having it diagnosed. I'm sure it could benefit from a cognitive profile. I'll give it

I've noticed more and more people, usually developers and tech nerds, adding a guestbook to their personal websites. First, if building a personal website is becoming more common, that would be amazing. I love that "small web" vibe. Second, the guestbook idea is awesome. I really hope it's a thing. submitted by /u/kixxauth [link] [留言]

Had a lot of fun building this one. The kitty is Sphinx; he's a feral that likes to hang out on our porch 😃 Stack is boring next.js, typescript and tailwinds. Been running the core stack for a good while now. I just build locally and upload though, because fuck Vercel 🤣 submitted by /u/classicwfl [link] [留言]

Built a small API that turns any URL into structured brand data (logos, colors, fonts, screenshots, company info, etc). Originally made it for onboarding + AI workflows, but wondering if it’s actually useful beyond my own use cases or just “cool but unnecessary”. Curious what you think: Would you use this in anything real? If yes, where? submitted by /u/Quiet-Ad2219 [link] [留言]

Is it first time happening or what? https://preview.redd.it/m4qemuh3lc4h1.jpg?width=1142&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d91c07b578207c3ba341cc89deb9dd035c6034d6 submitted by /u/eliassrm [link] [留言]

If you've ordered glasses from them, you can go to: https://www.zennioptical.com/myAccount/myOrders My page just spins. I was curious where my glasses order was after a couple weeks of not receiving them. The network tab shows 30+ css files being downloaded for a very simple website, 10+ trackers and advertising js scripts, and the page still won't load. How about this: SELECT * FROM orders WHERE customer_id = :id ORDER BY order_date Then you can render my most recent orders on the server and at least render some HTML with relevant data. Ok, at scale that might now work. I understand that. Zenni isn't Amazon or Google, but they probably get many requests. In that case we could set up 1+ load balancers that simply forward the request to a sharded server based on userid to balance the load. It's absolutely crazy that we could handle thousands of requests per second in the early 2000s with a few servers in a colo facility and these days everyone has to pretend their facebook or myspace that needs to analyze complex graph connections between people. I just want to see what the status of my order is. It's not that hard. submitted by /u/DrAwesomeClaws [link] [留言]

Breakfast cereal bowls, deli sandwiches, pizza dinners, soups, yogurt plates. Most people do not eat from a blank slate, they eat from habit. That is part of what makes nutrition advice so hard to follow. It is also part of what a new artificial intelligence system tried to solve. submitted by /u/Brighter-Side-News [link] [留言]

This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge TL;DR — Type a one-line bill topic. Twenty-five Hermes agents (1 Speaker, 19 ministries, 5 parties) run a full Polish legislative session in 2 minutes. Vote tally, social impact, party tweets — and a side-by-side "current law vs proposed amendment" with every clause cited to a real statute. Built on delegate_task for parallel ministry consultation. 🌐 Live: https://web-production-53027.up.railway.app/ 🎥 Walkthrough: https://www.loom.com/share/92cdac7da31c471088a4e569b0cfe1ed 📦 Repo: https://github.com/monsad/ai-politics (MIT) What I Built Watch a politician debate a new tax law on TV. They argue whether it's fair, whether it'll work, whether the other side is lying. Nobody ever shows you the diff — which paragraph of which statute actually changes, and from what to what. The conversation is theatre on top of an invisible legal document. So I built the theatre AND the legal document. Virtual Parliament is a multi-agent simulation of the Polish Sejm. You type something like "four-day work week" or "flat income tax" , and 25 Hermes agents run a full legislative session: 🎯 Marszałek (Speaker) — the orchestrator. Classifies the topic. Picks 2–3 ministries via delegate_task in parallel . Reads their findings. Routes the bill to a party debate. 🏛️ 19 ministry experts — Finance, Climate, Labour & Social Policy, Justice, … Each returns a structured analysis: legal finding · budget impact · top 3 risks · recommendation . Every claim cites a real statute via PageIndex RAG. 🗳️ 5 party agents — KO, PiS, TD, Konfederacja, Lewica. Each one carries the real party's seat count (157, 194, 65, 18, 26 — totalling 460), policy positions and rhetorical style. First reading. Second reading with rebuttals. 📊 Vote — weighted by seats. >230 passes. 📜 Draft bill — produced with explicit "Article 129 §1 of the Labour Code **is amended to read …" diffs against current law. The frontend surfaces the diff as a Current law vs proposed change panel